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President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity...
Drudgereport ^ | 2/12/07 | drudge

Posted on 02/12/2007 6:09:00 AM PST by pissant

Edited on 02/12/2007 1:34:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity
Mon Feb 12 2007 09:10:09 ET

Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis.

In an interview with "Hospodárské noviny", a Czech economics daily, Klaus answered a few questions:

Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a false myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President?•

A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it's an undignified slapstick that people don't wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the "but's" are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses.• This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians. If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.•

Q: How do you explain that there is no other comparably senior statesman in Europe who would advocate this viewpoint? No one else has such strong opinions...•

A: My opinions about this issue simply are strong. Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

• Q: But you're not a climate scientist. Do you have a sufficient knowledge and enough information?•

A: Environmentalism as a metaphysical ideology and as a worldview has absolutely nothing to do with natural sciences or with the climate. Sadly, it has nothing to do with social sciences either. Still, it is becoming fashionable and this fact scares me. The second part of the sentence should be: we also have lots of reports, studies, and books of climatologists whose conclusions are diametrally opposite.• Indeed, I never measure the thickness of ice in Antarctica. I really don't know how to do it and don't plan to learn it. However, as a scientifically oriented person, I know how to read science reports about these questions, for example about ice in Antarctica. I don't have to be a climate scientist myself to read them. And inside the papers I have read, the conclusions we may see in the media simply don't appear. But let me promise you something: this topic troubles me which is why I started to write an article about it last Christmas. The article expanded and became a book. In a couple of months, it will be published. One chapter out of seven will organize my opinions about the climate change.• Environmentalism and green ideology is something very different from climate science. Various findings and screams of scientists are abused by this ideology.•

Q: How do you explain that conservative media are skeptical while the left-wing media view the global warming as a done deal?•

A: It is not quite exactly divided to the left-wingers and right-wingers. Nevertheless it's obvious that environmentalism is a new incarnation of modern leftism.•

Q: If you look at all these things, even if you were right ...•

A: ...I am right...•

Q: Isn't there enough empirical evidence and facts we can see with our eyes that imply that Man is demolishing the planet and himself?•

A: It's such a nonsense that I have probably not heard a bigger nonsense yet.•

Q: Don't you believe that we're ruining our planet?•

A: I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can't. I don't see any ruining of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don't think that a reasonable and serious person could say such a thing. Look: you represent the economic media so I expect a certain economical erudition from you. My book will answer these questions. For example, we know that there exists a huge correlation between the care we give to the environment on one side and the wealth and technological prowess on the other side. It's clear that the poorer the society is, the more brutally it behaves with respect to Nature, and vice versa.• It's also true that there exist social systems that are damaging Nature - by eliminating private ownership and similar things - much more than the freer societies. These tendencies become important in the long run. They unambiguously imply that today, on February 8th, 2007, Nature is protected uncomparably more than on February 8th ten years ago or fifty years ago or one hundred years ago.• That's why I ask: how can you pronounce the sentence you said? Perhaps if you're unconscious? Or did you mean it as a provocation only? And maybe I am just too naive and I allowed you to provoke me to give you all these answers, am I not? It is more likely that you actually believe what you say.

[English translation from Harvard Professor Lubos Motl]

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To: pissant

"...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice."

What a great line!


181 posted on 02/13/2007 6:07:35 AM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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To: Fresh Wind; All

This guy is amazing. He's calling a spade a spade.


182 posted on 02/13/2007 6:12:25 AM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Wow, isn't his guy afraid for his life for speaking the truth?


183 posted on 02/13/2007 6:25:47 AM PST by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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To: pissant

Wow, this is a man after my own heart. I hope there'll be an English language version of his book.


184 posted on 02/13/2007 6:26:07 AM PST by cake_crumb (When "bipartisan study groups" prosecute wars, you get Another Viet Nam)
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To: -YYZ-
It's clear that the poorer the society is, the more brutally it behaves with respect to Nature, and vice versa.

Amen!
My senior year in college I spent the summer in Prague and also toured the Bohemian region. It was the first year after the border opened ('91) and was an eye-opening, life-changing experience for me. The Czechs are the most amazing, intelligent and wonderful people I have ever encountered. No nonsense, no BS, just smart and very politically aware. Also big fans of Reagan. Unfortunately, I have been hearing that the Commies are setting up shop in their educational system as well... I read somewhere that 44% of the high school-age kids (the ones too young to remember) seem to think they "had it better" under Communism.

If you get a chance, visit Prague. It's a fairy-tale city.

Oh, and read "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Czech writer Milan Kundera.

185 posted on 02/13/2007 6:28:17 AM PST by ponygirl
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To: Bigg Red

I governments were REALLY worried about the glaciers receding, they should have done something about it 30,000 years ago.


186 posted on 02/13/2007 6:28:44 AM PST by cake_crumb (When "bipartisan study groups" prosecute wars, you get Another Viet Nam)
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To: cake_crumb

If governments were REALLY worried about the glaciers receding, they should have done something about it 30,000 years ago.

&&
Clever!


187 posted on 02/13/2007 6:59:47 AM PST by Bigg Red (You are either with us or with the terrorists.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

When the lean mean murderous savages from the desert come, there will be no contest.

**
I pray you're predicition is wrong, but I fear that it is correct.


188 posted on 02/13/2007 7:01:14 AM PST by Bigg Red (You are either with us or with the terrorists.)
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To: hinckley buzzard; Bigg Red

Let me try that again:

I pray that your prediction is wrong, but I fear that it is correct.

[Need more caffeine!]


189 posted on 02/13/2007 7:03:39 AM PST by Bigg Red (You are either with us or with the terrorists.)
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To: cripplecreek

Looks like good fishin' weather to me........Time to grab the auger.


190 posted on 02/13/2007 7:08:52 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: pissant

The Czechs and the rest of New Europe are like a breath of fresh air.


191 posted on 02/13/2007 7:58:50 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Witch-king of Angmar

now that is hilarious. South Park.


192 posted on 02/13/2007 8:04:51 AM PST by ziggy_dlo (THE LAND OF THE FREE, FOUGHT FOR BY THE BRAVE!!! We Never Forget 9/11.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

And there should be a positive tidal wave of tourist money flowing into this country after hearing such common sense, straight talk from its president!

Am looking into travel brochures now after all the recommendations from FReepers about the beautiful areas of this country.


193 posted on 02/13/2007 8:09:44 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Where do I go for my global warming?)
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To: pissant

"I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can't."

Ohmigod! LOL! That's gonna leave a mark.


194 posted on 02/13/2007 8:25:20 AM PST by dljordan
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To: pissant
Klaus knows first-hand what collectivism does to the environment. I was in Northern Bohemia back in '84. The Soviet-style factories absolutely had turned a beautiful countryside into something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

It was the Commies who destroyed the environment. It is the capitalists who are cleaning it up.

And the Czechs remember all too well that it was the Greens in Western Europe who were taking money from their Soviet paymasters.
195 posted on 02/13/2007 8:26:13 AM PST by horse_doc
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To: pissant


If you notice periods of depression that seem to accompany seasonal changes during the year, you may suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD). This condition is characterized by recurrent episodes of depression – usually in late fall and winter – alternating with periods of normal or high mood the rest of the year.

Most people with SAD are women whose illness typically begins in their twenties, although men also report SAD of similar severity and have increasingly sought treatment. SAD can also occur in children and adolescents, in which case the syndrome is first suspected by parents and teachers. Many people with SAD report at least one close relative with a psychiatric condition, most frequently a severe depressive disorder (55 percent) or alcohol abuse (34 percent).

Symptoms of winter SAD usually begin in October or November and subside in March or April. Some patients begin to slump as early as August, while others remain well until January. Regardless of the time of onset, most patients don’t feel fully back to normal until early May. Depressions are usually mild to moderate, but they can be severe. Very few patients with SAD have required hospitalization, and even fewer have been treated with electroconvulsive therapy.

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196 posted on 02/13/2007 8:49:38 AM PST by OESY
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To: pissant

Great find. Thanks for posting. I like this guy.


197 posted on 02/13/2007 10:14:56 AM PST by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: editor-surveyor
Questions Gore's Sanity...
He's slow to get on the bandwagon.
"Owl" Gore...'cause he's a hoot!
198 posted on 02/13/2007 10:20:07 AM PST by philman_36
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To: pissant

Ping for later.


199 posted on 02/13/2007 10:21:00 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: pissant

Thanks, this is a good one. Sounds like a man of great reasoning skills. Keep this one on top !!


200 posted on 02/13/2007 10:51:40 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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